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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9021

7 September 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/china
Solana says EU wants to lift arms ban on China at some point

Brussels, 06/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - In Shanghai on Tuesday, the EU High Representative for CFSP, Javier Solana, said that despite the current deadlock in negotiations over the arms embargo, the EU is planning at some point in the future to lift the embargo on EU arms sales to China (imposed following the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989), but that does not mean that the EU wants to sell arms to China willy-nilly. At the December 2004 European Council, the EU25 decided to lift the embargo...

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